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(Written by Maria De Santis of the Women’s Justice Center, Santa Rosa, CA)There’s a seemingly simple little exercise we’ve done dozens of times at workshops on violence against women. The usual responses, however, are anything but simple. They’re confounding and cause for concern.Recently we repeated the exercise with a conference room full of 70 social workers, advocates, therapists, and mental health workers. “Why don’t some domestic...
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Characteristics of a Misogynist Misogyny (mi-soj'e-ne) n. Hatred of women; a person who hates women.[Gk. misogunia] - mis'sog'y-nist n. - mi-sog'y-nis'tic or mi-sog'y-nous adj.Do any of these characteristics sound familiar?If you or someone you know has 4 or more of these, we encourage seeking help to deal with the issues that have created these characteristics. Behaviors don't come out of a vacuum, there are reasons (not excuses) for this...
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(we have used the male gender, your abuser could be female)('battering' can be extended to verbal, emotional & psychological abuse)Abusive men batter women as a means of power and control, to manipulate, intimidate and rule their intimate partner.Men who abuse their partners come from all races, religions, socioeconomic classes, areas of the world, educational levels and occupations.They often appear charming and attentive to outsiders, and...
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Children depend on those who love and care for them, to tell them who they are. A child's developing self-esteem is founded on parental beliefs and expectations. Children who are continuously "put down" with name-calling or other disparagement are vulnerable to poor self-image and lowered confidence in themselves. The earlier and more pervasive the abuse, the greater the potential for crippling a child's development, socially, academically or...
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Jeanette Norman - BellaOnline's Domestic Violence EditorAre there more reports of domestic violence during Super Bowl season? Do men really get that angry and violent during a sporting event that would cause them to cause harm to their wife/girlfriends and their children?Some people say this is a myth, some people will tell you it is the truth. If you check out the Urban Legends section of Snopes.com, the author of an article about this claims...
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by Erin PizzeyFrom her 1998 book "The Emotional Terrorist & The Violence Prone" Those of us working in the field of domestic violence are confronted daily by the difficult task of working with women in problematical families. In my work with family violence, I have come to recognize that there are women involved in emotionally and/or physically violent relationships who express and enact disturbance beyond the expected (and acceptable) scope...
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The married couple worked together as partners in their store, but their partnership definitely was not equal. He called her “stupid” in front of employees, blew up when she made mistakes & kept her in the dark about their finances. He also pushed her around a couple of times.But what hurt the woman most were her husband’s savage & belittling words. She became depressed, then frightened by what would happen if her husband ever left her. After...
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